I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

人気ハリウッド名優で2019年グラストンベリー・フェスティヴァルにも出演したことで話題のジェフ・ゴールドブラムのDECCAセカンド・アルバムが早くも登場。

本作でも多くのヴォーカリストたちを迎え、華やかなジャズの世界を展開。
ピアニストのみならずジェフ自身もヴォーカルを披露。

フィーチャリング・アーティストは、Sharon Van Etten, Inara George, Fiona Apple, Anna Calvi, Gina Saputo, そしてグレゴリー・ポーターまで!「サイドワインダー」、「ザ・キャット」、「レッツ・フェイス・ザ・ミュージック・アンド・ダンス」などの有名ジャズ曲から、「ザ・ビート・ゴーズ・オン」や「ブロークン・イングリッシュ」などのポピュラー楽曲までを粋にカヴァー。

180g重量盤。

A year after issuing his debut album, The Capitol Studios Sessions, Jeff Goldblum returns to the piano and his band the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra with 2019s I Shouldnt Be Telling You This. The acclaimed actor brings a level of street cred to his musical endeavors that many celebrity-turned-musicians lack. A longtime jazz pianist, Goldblum actually started out playing gigs years before he embarked on his Hollywood career and has continued to moonlight as a pianist, regularly playing shows around Los Angeles and New York. While he displays a knack for straight-ahead jazz sophistication, it doesnt hurt that he surrounds himself with a bevy of top-notch pros, including Hammond B-3 specialist Joe Bagg, who carries a lions share of the Mildred Snitzer Orchestras sound throughout the album. Also contributing are bassist Alex Frank, guitarist John Stone, drummer Kenny Elliott, and saxophonists James King and Scott Gilman. Together, they play a brightly attenuated brand of 60s-influenced jazz that brings to mind the groovy hard bop of Horace Silver crossed with the urbane soulfulness of Ramsey Lewis. As on The Capitol Studios Sessions, here Goldblum also features a handful of guest performers, including indie singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten, who acquits herself nicely on a dusky version of Lets Face the Music and Dance. Similarly, Fiona Apple evokes Shirley Basseys feline swagger on Dont Worry Bout Me. One of Goldblums more interesting choices on the album is to create unexpected mash-ups, as with his wryly swinging combination of Lee Morgans The Sidewinder and Sonny Bonos The Beat Goes On featuring singer Inara George. Also surprisingly effective is his arrangement of Wes Montgomerys Four on Six weaved together with Marianne Faithfulls Broken English and helmed with Weimar cabaret swagger by singer Anna Calvi. Goldblums skill at showcasing other performers is clearly a part of his charm, and here it extends beyond pop artists as he brings on San Diego trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos for several tasty solos, spotlights L.A. jazz chanteuse Gina Saputo on an impressive vocalese version of If I Knew Then, and communes with Grammy-winning vocalist Gregory Porter over a warm reading of Make Someone Happy. ~ Matt Collar